Useful API Functions

This document lists most useful (and most often needed) functions. Be aware, that there are many more to be found in either the class references or via the builtin class browser.

String

All of the following are functional operators; meaning that they do not modify the argument(s).

Comparing

string1 = string2
  compares case sensitive string1 sameAs: string2

compares case insensitive

Case Conversion

aString asLowercase
aString asUppercase
aString asUppercaseFirst

return a case converted string

Finding Characters or Substrings

aString indexOf: aCharacter

return the 1-based index, or 0 if not found. Notice that character constants are denoted as $x in Smalltalk (pr "Character return", "Character newline", "Character tab"...)

aString lastIndexOf: aCharacter

searching from the end, return the 1-based index, or 0 if not found.

aString includes: aCharacter

return true if the character is included, false if not

Reference: String inherits from: CharacterArray and SequenceableCollection and Collection

Collection

Reference: Collection

Filename

Reference: Filename

Stream

Reference: Stream

Number

Reference: Number and its subclasses Integer, Float, Fraction, Complex

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